Our Team
Group-IB’s team comprises top industry talents. We investigate the most sophisticated cybercrimes all over the world and create products designed to protect against them.
500+
employees
40%
Research & Development
27
median age of employees
60 000+
combined hours of incident response
Ilya Sachkov
CEO, Founder of Group-IB
In 2003, Ilya founded Group-IB — one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating cybercrime.
Ilya is one of the 26 prominent independent commissioners for the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a member of cybercrime expert committees in the Council of Europe and the OSCE. He is a Member of Young President Organisation (YPO) — global network of young chief executives. He takes part in the work of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity.
In 2010, Ilya became the first Russian national to win the Digital Crimes Consortium award for his contribution to international exchange of experience in the field of computer forensics.
In 2015-2017, Ilya was awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Award three times in a row in the «Information Security for Business» category.
In 2016, he was featured in the global list of Forbes 30 Under 30 among the brightest young businessmen in «Enterprise Tech» category, where Mark Zuckerberg was ranked first in 2011.
Since 2017, he is an associate professor of the Bauman Technical University at the Department of Information Security, the department he graduated with honors in 2009.
In 2018, Ilya made it to the Russian Reporter and Russia Beyond the Headlines prominent people of the year lists.
In 2019, Ilya was listed among the top 100 young economic leaders by the French «Institut Choiseul.» In 2020, he made it to the ranking for the second consecutive year.
Sachkov has participated as a speaker in such world-renowned events and conferences as INTERPOL World, WEF Cybersecurity in Davos, BRICS ministerial meeting, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and etc.
Sachkov is also known as a philanthropist, engaged in charity work, reading lectures on cybersecurity for students and supporting young talents in the musical industry. Over the past several years, Sachkov has become an ambassador of several brands, including Parmigiani Fleurier, the Swiss watchmaker.
Countries need to sign a moratorium on the proliferation and creation of cyber weapons for military purposes or espionage. Smart countries understand computer crime slows down economic development.
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The cybercriminal world today represents a well-structured business that has as many, if not more, roles as any other field
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Without incident response and forensics capabilities, you will never understand what’s really going on ... It’s only through incident response that you will get the necessary technical indicators and understand the kill chain. This information can then be fed to your threat intelligence structure.
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The biggest problem awaiting us in the near future is the emergence of cyber terrorists, who are not interested in financial attacks. They want to attack critical infrastructure. And they are using the exact same tools that organized crime has used.
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The global pandemic that locked people worldwide inside their houses and made their devices the only link to the outside world became a golden opportunity for cybercriminals. They saw their victims increase time spent online while at the same time get rid of control of corporate cybersecurity solutions and experts.
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Everyone knows that never any information was leaked from us and was not used in the politics, we have a level of trust. We did not lose any client in the United States or in the Great Britain, in Europe we are even growing.
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Lack of administrative barriers, tax incentives, a favourable investment climate and a strategy for creating a vibrant cybersecurity ecosystem — these are just some of the reasons why we at Group-IB have chosen Singapore as a platform for our international business development.
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Dmitry Volkov
CTO, Head of Threat Intelligence & Attribution Department,
Сo-founder of Group-IB
Since co-founding Group-IB in 2003, he has been a prominent voice leading the company toward becoming the go-to expert on international cybercrime. His team successfully conducted the first cyber investigations. They have identified and helped detain cyber criminals who targeted public and private companies worldwide.
In 2017 Dmitry became Chief Technology Officer at Group-IB. In his new role, Dmitry is responsible for all aspects of the company’s technological development and transformation.
In 2016, he became a member of the Europol EC3 Advisory Group on Internet Security.
In 2015, Dmitry was listed by Business Insider as one of the top 7 professionals behind influential security companies.
In 2013, Dmitry Volkov became a member of the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group aimed at conducting a comprehensive study on the problem of global cybercrime.
Instead, an organization’s cybersecurity should be based on a proactive approach. All the threats targeting an organization are detected at the preparation stage. Modern cybersecurity solutions should not only carry out dynamic and static analysis of potentially malicious files, but also counteract a number of techniques that threat actors use to detect the threat analysis environment and bypass threat detection technologies.
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There are millions of indicators like hashes, IPs, certificates. They are the dots, they themselves do not bring you much value, while connecting those dots and attributing them to a specific threat actor is paramount. It gives you a bigger picture and understanding of the depth of the attacks and adversaries’ further intent, based on historical data. Since the very beginning, we have been observing different threat actors and how they bring down some of the highly robust IT infrastructures, which has enabled us to progressively learn, develop an excellent understanding of their behaviour, tools, techniques and practices and formulate security prerequisites needed for resilient and effective cyber defence.
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...the MoneyTaker group broke into 20 systems, which includes 15 U.S. lenders, targeting ATMs with “mules” and Russia`s interbank monet-transfer system, Group-IB said in a report provided to Bloomberg. Criminals have changed tactics and are now focusing on banks rather than their clients, as was standard operating procedure in the past.
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Meet our team
Nicholas Palmer
Head of Global Sales
Anastasiya Komissarova
Chief of Staff to the CEO
Konstantin Chigirev
Chief Operating Officer, Global HQ (Singapore)
Sergey Lupanin
Chief Operating Officer, Europe HQ (Amsterdam)
Shafique Dawood
Head of Sales and Business Development
APAC
Camill Cebulla
Sales Director
Europe
Tim Bobak
Sales Director
UK & MEA
Ashraf Koheil
Regional Sales Director
Middle East
Alvaro Ladoux
Business Development Manager
Spain
Giulio Vada
Business Development Manager
Italy
Christian Jeurissen
Business Development Manager
Africa
Feixiang He
Senior Threat Intelligence & Attribution Analyst
Singapore
Shawn Tay
Senior Threat Intelligence & Attribution Analyst
Singapore
Albert Priego
Malware Analyst
Spain
James Wong
Regional Sales Director
APAC
Julia Kim
Chief Marketing Officer
Cyril Boussiron
Sales Account Manager
France
Hanno Roding
Partner Development Director
Darrent Ng
Business Development Manager
Malaysia
Anh Le
Business Development Manager
Vietnam
Valery Baulin
Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis
Dmitry Tyunkin
Head of Anti-Piracy and Digital Risk Protection
The Netherlands
Sergey Nikitin
Deputy Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis